Comment on ISP put me behind NAT

• nik282000@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s to push users into getting commercial accounts.

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  • tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I dunno. The IPv4 address space is getting pretty tight, and aside from rejiggering existing inefficient allocations, there’s not a lot you can do beyond NAT.

    In the US, we had it pretty good for a long time, because we had a rather disproportionate chunk of the IPv4 address space – Ford, MIT, and Apple alone each had their own Class A netblock, about half a percent of the Internet’s address space each, for example.

    But things have steadily gotten tighter as more and more of the world uses the Internet more and more.

    whatismyipaddress.com/ipv6-ready

    As expected, the ISPs are no longer receiving new allotments or allocations of public IPv4 addresses from the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN). Some have managed to continue to provide new IPv4 addresses by reallocating some of the addresses they had been assigned in the past but perhaps had never passed on to customers. This buys them a little more time while they scramble to roll out and support IPv6 addresses.

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    • nik282000@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      IPv6.

      Not even offered in my area 🤡

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